Garrett's Games 535 - City of Spies and ESSEN Spiel Preview!

Shelley and I get a chance to discuss one of the newer titles from Stronghold Games that will be available in Germany in less than 2 weeks, then we tackle the Essen Spiel 2016 Preview on BGG and I go through the ones I must track down! Review: City of Spies by Gil d'Orey and Antonio Sousa Lara from Stronghold Games The games discussed from the Preview: Amigo/Small Card Games/2-Player Games (under E20) Bohnanza Das Duel Freaky Naova Schwupps X Nimmt! Capital Lux - drafting/own tableau or common… Clown Standoff - trick taking with some push your luck Zany Penguins - cute cards/interesting tactics & drafting Legendary Inventors Noxford Grand Bazaar (Small card game that takes up to 7 players!) Fruit Spy (cute artwork/rethemed Knizia) Tallinn plays quickly, expansions available (Blindes Huhn & Visby last year) What's Up - cute card game/video Hanamikoji (2-player, gorgeous cards!) Jolly & Roger (2-player) - comment on blog that it's been tested with couples a lot. Rival Kings (2-player) Agamemnon (2-player) Osprey Games Interesting New/Newer Publishers Ave Roma Beer Empire (Boards&Dice) does this do for beer what Vinhos/Viticulture did for wine? Barcelona: The Rose of Fire - 19thC city building. Avoid unrest while gaining prestige (Devir) Capital - Granna, and the building/re-building of Warsaw Round House - Clans compete for prestige in rural China (EmperorS4) Plus Ultra: The Court of Emperor Charles V (Meridiano) Medium Weight drafting Sweet Nose - Candy Eating! (MO ZI Game) Da Yuhne: Der Grosse Kaiserkanal (Müller Mätzig Spiele Verlag) Heavier Probably or MUST HAVES Lorenzo il Magnifico - Cranio/Designers of Grand Austria Hotel/Tzolkin Rhodes - new one from The Game Master Airlines - Golden Egg First Class: Unterwegs im Orient Express (HiG/Z) designer of Russian RR, Trambahn Ulm - R&R, Strong recommendation from Ted Luther: Das Spiel (need to read up on it and see how language dependent) Flamme Rouge - Cycling game from Lautapelit The Colonists (Mayfair/Lookout) - Possibly as big as Caverna...it will make its way over here… Oracle at Delphi - Stefan Feld Papa Paolo - Quined Games & pizza making Key to the City: London - Richard Breese North American Railways - Spielworxx is always putting out great stuff! Solarius Mission - Spielworxx & designed by the La Granja designers Colony Guilds of London Railroad Revolution - What's Your Game's 2016 entry Feast of Odin - another BIG game from Uwe, using the Tetris-style pieces Stronghold Titles La Granja No Siesta Great Western Trail Terraforming Mars Sola Fide Lighter Fare That Looks Interesting Kingdomino Cottage Garden (Uwe with tetris-esque pieces) Touria - The Brands & R&R Games Kanagawa - Card drafting and a game about painting. Dokmus - Area Control & 20-30 minutes (Lauta) Honshu - Trick Taking & map building! (Lauta) Slide Blast - Waterslide building/tile laying Sail Away (Mattel) Light resource collection with some 'take that' elements...Styx Chariot Race (Matt Leacock, interactive, but uses some of the Roll Through The Ages ideas) Coal Baron Card Game Die Baumeister des Colosseum - Klaus Jurgen Wrede Noch Mal! - Dice game from the Brands Mondrian The Dice Game Pandemic Iberia - LOVED getting this variant to the table Odds & Ends/Expansions Order of the Guilded Compass - New remake of Alea iacta Est Knights/Chevaliers - Single-player and comic book form, intrigues Rome: Rise to Power - Revolt! Expansion Carcassonne Star Wars Expansion Russian Railroads: American Railroads Concordia Gallia/Corsica